A hostel that housed Rwanda genocide survivors prepares to take in people deported by the UK
Updated 1525 GMT (2325 HKT) June 14, 2022
Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn't a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali's Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for nearly three decades, it will be the first home for migrants deported from the United Kingdom.
Millions at risk in South Sudan as Ukraine war forces slashing of aid
The World Food Programme has said it is suspending food aid to 1.7 million people in South Sudan, as the war in Ukraine sucks funding from the world’s crisis-plagued youngest country and causes the price of staples to soar.
The UN’s emergency food assistance agency said it had planned to deliver aid to more than 6 million acutely food-insecure people in South Sudan this year, as it did in 2021, albeit with smaller rations.
But, in a major cut likened by a spokesperson to a form of humanitarian triage, the WFP said it would now have to prioritise 4.5 million of the most vulnerable people in order to stop them dying of starvation during the lean season, between April and July.
Alexei Navalny’s whereabouts unknown after reported removal from prison
Putin’s arch-critic was serving a long jail sentence in a prison camp east of Moscow
Alexei Navalny, the most high-profile Russian critic of Vladimir Putin has been transferred from his prison and moved to an unknown location, a top aide said on Tuesday.
“Where Alexei is now, and which colony he is being taken to, we don’t know,” Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, said in a statement on the Telegram app.
Navalny is currently serving more than 11 years. He was jailed last year for two-and-a-half years and in March was sentenced to an extra nine years for fraud and contempt of court.
'Islamophobic' remarks put pressure on India's Modi
While the Indian government has taken steps to control the diplomatic backlash from Gulf countries over the anti-Prophet comments, Smita Sharma says the real challenges for Prime Minister Modi are at home.
In March 2016 at the inauguration of the World Sufi Forum Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed delegates to "the ancient city of Delhi."
"Like our nation, the city's heart has place for every faith, from those with few followers to those with billion believers," he said. "And you represent the rich diversity of the Islamic civilization that stands on the solid bedrock of a great religion."
A month later, Saudi Arabia conferred its highest civilian honor, the King Abdulaziz Sash, on Modi.
Ethiopia PM moots possibility of peace talks with Tigray rebels
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday spoke for the first time about the possibility of peace negotiations with Tigrayan rebels, who have been locked in a 19-month war with federal forces.
Dispelling speculation that secret talks were already under way with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Abiy said the government had instituted a committee to examine the possibility of holding negotiations.
"It is not so simple to conduct negotiations. There is a lot of work to be done (before) and a committee has been set up" to look into the issue, Abiy told Ethiopian MPs.
Yazidi women survivors of ISIL crimes yet to find justice
Iraqi Yazidi women survivors of ISIL sexual slavery still have no knowledge of what happened to their missing family.
On a warm weekday, Hilwa Ibrahim, 50, was sitting patiently alongside a few other Yazidi women in the office of the NGO Emma Organization for Human Development, in the town of Sharya, approximately 15km (9 miles) south of Duhok.
Wearing a full-body dark purple garment and sandals, and a light blue hijab, she gave a hint of a smile and walked into the room. Her tired and aged appearance was an indication of the ordeal she had survived.
“My husband was murdered by ISIL [ISIS]”, were the first words she uttered.
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